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Decluttering
Oct. 20th, 2004 11:16 pmWell, after the last entry you must have guessed what's coming ...
Is donating books to the local library with the intent of having them end up circulating a sensible thing to do? I imagine it imposes some cataloguing effort on them; is there anything I can do to reduce that effort?
I'm not sure why I'm unhappy with the idea of giving the library books which they'll sell to raise general funds; I suppose it's that the general funds will then (hopefully) buy books, which makes this a way of converting books into books with 90% friction; selling the books to a 2H bookshop which uses part of the money they get from selling them on to pay the council tax that funds the library isn't all that much less efficient.
I've had little luck selling books (standard paperbacks) on ebay, the postage is a fair chunk of what I'd pay for a second-hand paperback and the ebay search-driven experience is nothing like as good as the 2H-bookshop browsing version. Has any of my gentle readers managed to sell books online?
Is donating books to the local library with the intent of having them end up circulating a sensible thing to do? I imagine it imposes some cataloguing effort on them; is there anything I can do to reduce that effort?
I'm not sure why I'm unhappy with the idea of giving the library books which they'll sell to raise general funds; I suppose it's that the general funds will then (hopefully) buy books, which makes this a way of converting books into books with 90% friction; selling the books to a 2H bookshop which uses part of the money they get from selling them on to pay the council tax that funds the library isn't all that much less efficient.
I've had little luck selling books (standard paperbacks) on ebay, the postage is a fair chunk of what I'd pay for a second-hand paperback and the ebay search-driven experience is nothing like as good as the 2H-bookshop browsing version. Has any of my gentle readers managed to sell books online?
